Intellectual History of the 20th Century: Yuri Mezhenko’s Diary as a Personal Project and Historical Projection
Abstract
The diary of Yury Mezhenko, which was considered lost since the 1950s, contains entries from 1919 to 1926 and reflects the Ukrainian cultural life of that time and the personal life of the author, one of the most prominent literary critics and bibliographers of that period. Written with the intention of recording historically significant processes and figures in Ukrainian literature during the period of revolutionary transformation, this document contains unique evidence of a rapidly changing intellectual landscape and everyday life, the formation...